Remove 1p and 2p coins?

Indeed. I'd like to see someone go into a newsagents and buy a week's worth of the Daily Express in one go. Or into Starbucks and buy a week's worth of coffee.

Mark

Newspapers come by post.

Can't you make your own coffee? What a snob.

I never do any of those. If I regularly used a train, I'd have a season ticket. Newspapers come by post by DD subscription. I buy all my food and drink at a supermarket once a fortnight.

You get an hour off for lunch - you use some of it to buy lunch

Some companies will let you work through lunch and book no more break time than the minimum legally required. Others (I am working for one now, and have worked for a different one in the past) specify a minimum down time well in excess of the minimum required. For many people the time's not long enough to do anything else useful with other than "go for walk"

tim

What legal requirement? I often worked through lunch, took no breaks at all, and simply left early at the end of the day, or arrived late. Lunch was packed in a sandwich box so I could eat it while working.

Please tell me that you are playing the game with Hucker and that you are not taking him seriously. Please tell me that.

If your employer allowed you to do that now, HE would be committing an offence. Of course employers are not expected to go to your desk to check, but what they are expected to do is to have the audit trail that shows that they knocked at least 20 minutes off of the total hours present when calculating the paid for hours.

you're not allowed to do that no!

tim

Would that be the call center job that proved to be too much for you? The one that you ran away from without giving any notice? The job that you were too stupid to do? The job that you said a monkey could do?

Making an employer ALLOW you breaks is acceptable, but making him FORCE you to take breaks is beyond stupidity. The employee should be able to take breaks whenever he wants.

And the audit trail is useless. As I said, I took no breaks, then left early. I worked the correct hours, and was paid as though I was there during normal hours. How would the nanny society ever find out?

Not if you're a surgeon, no. But most desk jobs allow eating, why wouldn't they?

What you personally do is irrelevant. The fact is that £2.5 billion was spent via contactless cards in the first half of this year, and that figure has doubled in the last 12 months. Clearly a very significant number of people don't think they are "useless", as you described them.

A very significant number of people have disorganised lives, and I don't care for them one bit.

Every response you give refers to "I".

It's not about what you personally do, nor is it about what I do. It's about what the population as a whole does and wants. Do you think issues like the removal of 1p and 2p coins are going to be based simply on whether you personally find them useful?

It's about what sensible people do. And even that doesn't matter, just think about the price of most things you buy. What can you buy for under 5p?

Trolling, trolling, trolling, trolling as always. And you lot fell for it.

I think it's become obvious that rather than looking for a discussion on the topic, you came here to troll and find someone to disagree with on every issue. Another one for the killfile.

Took you long enough. I trust that you do know that it is the sociopath Peter Hucker that you have been replying to?

Oh dear, can't you follow simple logic? The half penny was removed because it was too small to be of use. Think forwards to the future when inflation means that a loaf of bread is worth £6.00. Would you STILL want a penny?

I'm not sure who Hucker is, but I hope this fellow gets some help soon.